Market-bag holder



F. F. WEAR MARKET BAG HOLDER Filed Dec. 6. 1922 m am 6% Wm .k n m F BY AT NEY' liatented Sept. 25, l23.

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FRANK F. WEAR, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

MARKETBAG HOLDER.

Application filed December 6, 1922. Serial No. 605,180.

I To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK F. WEAR, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of Los Angeles, county of Los Angeles, State of California, have invented an Improvement in a Market-Bag Holder; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of my inventiomsuch as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to amarket-bag holder; and it consists in the novel construction. combination and arrangement of parts. hereinafter described and later claimed.

The object of my invention is to provide, at a low manufacturing cost, a practical and efficient holder for market-bags, that will prevent the hand and fingers from being cut or chafed by the handles of the bag. It is especially adapted for use in connection with such market bags as have the common twisted seagrass or hemp string handles.

In order that my invention may be clearly understood and readily carried into effect, the same is described with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which similar numerals indicate like parts:

Fig. 1, is afront perspective;

Fig. 2, is a side perspective;

Fin. 3, is a cross sectionend view0f my holder;

Fig. 4, is a view showing my device in use in connection with a market-bag.

In detail. my device consists of a soft, pliable pad. 2, composed of suitable material, adapted to conform to the palm of the hand in its varying positions. Integral with this soft pad. 2. is a hard compressed pad. 3. composed of vulcanized rubber. or other suitable material. which is provided on its lower surfa e with suitable grooves, 4, adapted to conform to the shape of the fin- 53ers at their base. Portions, 5, of this hard pad, 3, extend outwardly and downwardly over the outer surfaces of the first and little fingers. Parallel transverse grooves, 6, sultably gouged out of the upper surface of the hard pad, 3, areadapted to receive the string handles of an ordinary market-bag. The said holder is provided with an orlfice,

7, for convenience in hanging up. Owing to its construction, my device is reversible,

and it may be used in either hand.

To use my device one places the holder in his hand and then adjusts the string handles of the market-bag in thetransverse the base of the fingers; parallel transverse grooves for the upper surface of said hart pad and adapted to receive the string handles of a market-bag; and downwardly proje tions on the outer edges of said hard padfl 2. A market-bag holder consisting ofa soft pad for the'palm of the hand; a hard pad shaped in conformity with the fingers; downwardly projecting guards for the first and the little fingers; parallel transverse grooves for said hard pad adapted to receive the string handles of a market-bag.

3. In a holder for market-bags, a soft pad for the palm of the hand; a hard pad shaped in conformity with the fingers at their base: parallel transverse grooves for said hard pad; and downwardly projecting guards for the outer edges of said hard pad.

' In testimony whereof I have hereunto afiixed my signature. Y

FRANK F. wean, 

